The third patriarch of faith mentioned in the faith chapter, Hebrews 11, if you'd turn there please, is Noah. Let's read what the writer of Hebrews states about Noah in Hebrews 11, verse seven, Hebrews 11, verse seven, “By faith Noah being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world and became the heir of righteousness, which is according to faith.”

Now, what did we just read over? What did I just read over? By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen… God had told him that mankind had reached the point where He was going to destroy the whole…, everything breathing, and he was moved with godly fear and so because he was moved with godly fear he prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. You see, people had become such damaged goods as you heard Mr. Jackson speak about. Beginning with Adam and Eve we had started sidling up to the trash heap of life. So at a time by faith God (Noah) was moved with godly fear. At a time when mankind had become exceedingly wicked Noah found grace in God's eyes because of his righteousness. God appeared to him, to Noah, and told him that He was going to destroy all of mankind because of their wickedness. God told Noah to build an ark to house him, his wife, his three sons and their three wives. And God, if you look back in, like I believe, back, well back in the first part of Genesis, He gave Noah the dimensions of the Ark which would also house the animals that would survive the flood. And in Hebrews 11:7, we read again that by faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world and became the heir of righteousness which is according to faith.

So what is godly fear? What is godly fear? What does the Scripture mean when it speaks of the fear of God or to fear the Lord, or the Eternal? So, today that's what I'm going to speak about, what it means to fear God. And the title that I've given it, this message, is, “You shall fear the Lord,” “You shall fear the Lord.”

For the last several months when I've not been working on a message, I’ve been going through the Bible marking all of the names that refer to God. And so, thus far I have made my way from Genesis 1:1 through Ezekiel 18, and, so while going through the Psalms and Proverbs, I was struck with all of the benefits there are of fearing God. So, this is what led me to put this message together. And fearing God is also discussed many times in the book of Deuteronomy. So, what does it mean to fear God, or to fear the Lord? According to Vine’s Dictionary, pages 79 and 80, the Hebrew word yare, Y-A-R-E, is Strong’s number 3372, occurs about 330 times in the Old Testament, and it means, “to be afraid, to stand in awe, to fear;” to be afraid, to stand in awe, to fear. And here's some of what Vine’s says about this Hebrew word, yare, connotes the psychological reaction of fear, being afraid of someone or something. If you're about to step on a poisonous snake, when you jump back (laughs), that would be being afraid of something or someone; in this case, a poisonous snake. Yare also means standing in awe of someone, recognizing their power and position, and rendering proper respect.

In a like manner yare connotes standing in awe of God, respecting Him, worshiping Him, honoring Him, being in submission to Him, following Him, obeying His commandments. At the same time we should have a certain fear and dread of God. He’s created us. He’s called us. He’s given us the precious gift of His Holy Spirit. Mr. Jackson read acts 2:38, “Repent and be baptized and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” And He’s in the process of converting us, of removing those dings, those, those, those, scars; removing us from that trash heap. He’s taken all that away, erasing all of the negative results of, of our having sinned so mightily. And He can give us the gift of eternal life if we remain faithful or remove that gift and destroy us in the Lake of Fire if we disobey Him and sin willfully.

One of my prayers is that God will help us all and help me to remain called, chosen and faithful, which I believe is Revelation 17, with our names written and registered in heaven; written in heaven, from Luke 10; registered in heaven, from Hebrews 12; with our names written and registered in heaven in the Lamb's Book of Life. And the lamb, it's the, the Book of Life appears eight times or so, and in one of those cases in the, later in revelation, I could turn to it, to, it's called the Lamb's Book of Life. And, also, there is the Lord’s Book of Remembrance mentioned in the end of Malachi, in Malachi 3, verse 16, “Then those who feared the Lord,” that we get back to the fear of the Lord, “spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard them, so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate on His name.” And, so my prayer has been and is that we will be and remain called, chosen and faithful, with our names written and registered in heaven in the Lamb's Book of Life and in the Lord's Book of Remembrance. And is the Lord's Book of Remembrance the same as the book of life? I don't know. That's a question I'd like to ask one of these days.

So, God can give us the gift of eternal life if we remain faithful. He can, or He can remove that gift and destroy us in the Lake of Fire if we disobey Him and sin willfully and refuse to repent. God is certainly deserving of our worship, our submission, our respect, our honor, our obedience to Him and His commandments. We should stand in awe of our Creator God and reverence Him. He created the whole physical universe and all of its physical laws. He created every atom, every molecule. He created heat light and sound. He created liquids, solids and gases. He created trillions of stars, and He calls them all by name, which is a prodigious feat. And, He created us in His image and likeness. I believe that Mr. Jackson read back in Genesis 1:26, and He’s conceived the plan of salvation through His son, Jesus Christ, to save us from our sin and to give us the gift of eternal life in His eternal spiritual universe that He created, the kingdom of God.

And, so we just concluded celebrating the Holy Days this year, which picture this plan of salvation, and as I just mentioned, God has also created a spiritual universe and offers us an eternal home in it forever. Revelation 21 and 22 speak of a new heaven, a new earth, and a new Jerusalem, that God is going to bring to pass with an opportunity for all of His saints to dwell in and rule in for all eternity. And I want to be and live in that New Jerusalem, and I know you do, too.

Recall that Vine’s defines yare is meaning to be afraid, to stand in awe, and to fear.

Now, let's look at a scriptural example of each of these meanings. And, so first let's consider the first meaning, to stand in awe… to be afraid… uh, I’ve got a typo there. Let’s consider the first one that I said… to be afraid. The children of Israel had fled from Egypt, and they found themselves trapped between the Red Sea and the mountains with the Egyptian army bearing down on them. They had nowhere to go. They had the water on one side, the mountain, and here comes the Egyptian army. And, remember, these people have, have been slaves. I mean they might've left with, with shovels and hoes and things like that, but they were no match for this Egyptian army. This was the greatest army on the face of the earth at that time. I mean they had horses and chariots and soldiers with shields and swords and all of those things. And, so they were very afraid for their lives.

Turn to Exodus the 14th chapter; Exodus 14 and let’s begin in verse 10, “and when Pharaoh drew near,” Exodus 14, verse 10, “and when Pharaoh drew near the eye… the children of Israel lifted their eyes and behold, the Egyptians marched after them.” So, they were very afraid. They were very yare. And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord because they were so afraid and scared. “Then, they said to Moses because there were no graves in Egypt have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out of Egypt. Is not this the word that we told in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians,’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. And, Moses said to the people do not be afraid,” do not be yare. “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.”

God then intervened to part the Red Sea for the children to walk through on dry ground with a wall of water on bold sides of them. After the children of Israel were on the other side, God released the water and drowned all of the Egyptian soldiers who were pursuing the children of Israel through the sea bed. So, one of the meanings of yare is to be afraid.

So, now let's consider the second meaning, which is to stand in awe. In Deuteronomy the 10th chapter… There’s a whole lot about the fear of the Lord in Deuteronomy, also, as I mentioned. Deuteronomy 10, beginning in verse 12, verse 12 and 13, “And, now, Israel what does the Lord your God require of you but to fear the Lord,” yare, “your God to walk in all His ways and to love Him to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and to keep His commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good,” not for your hurt, not to be a burden, but, “for your good.”

And so, if the children of Israel would fear the Lord, then they would walk in all His ways, they would love Him, they would serve the Lord their God with all of their hearts and with all of their soul, with their mind, soul and being, they would serve and obey God and to keep the commandments, they would keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for their good. It would've all been for their good.

Now, the third meaning is, fear. Remember Vine’s defined yare as meaning to be afraid, to stand in awe, to fear. And, so the third item is, fear.

So, Moses sent 12 men, one from each tribe of the children of Israel, to spy out the land of Canaan. When the 12 men came back, and eventually we’re going to get to Numbers, the 14th chapter, if you want to be turning there; Numbers 14. When the 12 men came back, 10 gave a bad report stating that the children of Israel would be unable to go up and to take the land, but two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, gave a positive report. When Joshua and Caleb spoke to the people to encourage them to go up and take the land, the people tried to stone them. Notice what Joshua said to the people in Numbers 14, beginning in verse six, Joshua and Caleb. And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land tore their clothes. They, they just really tore them up, that, that these other ten men had had given this, this bad report. And, they spoke to all the congregation, verse seven, the children of Israel, saying, “The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which loads with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord nor fear the people of the land,” nor fear, yare, the people of the land, “for they are our bread. Their protection has departed from them and the Lord is with us.” Do not yare them. Do not fear them. I mean, they were afraid of these people. They said, “We look just like grasshoppers.” They said, “We are not able,” verse 31, chapter 13, “to go up against the people for they are stronger than we and they gave the children of Israel the bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, the land to which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it were men of great statue and we saw these giants, the descendants of Anak, came from the giants and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight. Why, we were just like little grasshoppers compared to these giants of men. We can't go up and do that. God can't do that for us. He’s not big enough and strong enough to give us this land.” And, so the children of Israel accepted the bad report of the TEN spies and threatened the stone Joshua and Caleb in verse 10, and all, and all the congregation said to stone them with stones. “Now the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of meeting before all the children of Israel.” And, so the children of Israel lacked faith, and they were not allowed to go into the promised land until all of the men of war, except for Joshua and Caleb, had died, that all the men of war over 20 years old, had died during the 40 years of wandering in, in the wilderness.

And, then those who survived the 40 years and went into the promised land were faithful for awhile, but then they committed idolatry and Sabbath breaking in both groups, the northern 10 tribes taken into captivity by the Assyrians, and the southern ten two tribes, taken into captivity by the Babylonians.

There’s some examples, many examples in addition to Noah who feared God, Abraham was, was certainly one of those, in Genesis the 22nd chapter, if you’d turn there, please. Verse 12, now Abraham has finally had his son of his old age; son of his heart, and God tells him to take him out and sacrifice. And, Abraham does it. And he’s, he’s taken Isaac up on the mountain and put the wood down, and bound Isaac, and put him on, and taken a knife to cut his throat.

And then in verse 12 we read that the angel of the Lord, verse 11, called him from heaven and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said here I am. And, he said, the Angel of the Lord said, do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God. Now I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son from Me. Abraham was willing to go through with sacrificing the most precious gift that God had given him of his, his son, you're only son, from Me. so Abraham feared God.

Well, let’s look at a little of what happened to Abraham, and what he did that shows that he, he feared God. I mean, he left his country and his family and went off to a strange land. Genesis 12, verses 1 to 4, “And the Lord had said to Abraham, get out of your country from your kindred and from your father's house the land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. And, in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

He told him to just leave. He didn't tell him where he was going. And Abraham had to have enough faith and fear God enough to take off just because God said, “Go.” And He showed him later where he should go, and He says I'll make you a great nation. Now Abraham and Sarah are childless. So He’s going to make him a great nation that means he’s going to have to have descendants and I’ll make your name great and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you.

Some of these peoples of the world today bad mouthing the descendants of Abraham need to understand this Scripture, that God's going to bless those who bless Abraham and his descendants and curse those who curse Abraham and his descendants. “And, in you all the families of the earth should be blessed,” and our Savior Jesus Christ is a descendant of Abraham and in him all of the families of the earth shall be blessed, or have the opportunity to receive eternal life.

And, so Abraham and Lot take off and, and go to Canaan, but the land was not big enough to support all of the flocks and herds that Abraham and Lot had. And, so there was strife in, verse seven, of Genesis 13, there was strife between the herdsmen of Abraham and the herdsmen of Lot. And, so in verse eight, Abraham said to Lot, he was Abram, then. His name hadn’t been changed until quite a few years later. Abraham said, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we’re, we're brethren, we’re brothers, we’re kin.” So, what Abraham offered to do, and give Lott first choice, he said, “You take the area that you want to go to and I’ll take what remains.” And, so that's what they did. And, Lot chose the good part, the plain of Jordan, it was well watered. And, Abraham took what was left. It wasn’t as good. And, Lott didn't come to a very good end in the area of Sodom and Gomorrah either.

And, so “Abram,” verse 12, “dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities the plain pitched his tent even as far as Sodom whose men were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.”

Now, I’m getting to verse 14, which, which is more of the promises of what Abraham was promised because he feared God, and he had faith. And, the Lord said to Abram after Lot separated from him, “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are northward, southward, eastward, and westward, for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.”

And, how long does forever go on? How long is forever? You think the Arabs are going to inherit the land of Canaan? That they're going to eject, permanently, the descendants of Abraham, the descendants of Judah and Benjamin, and whoever's included there with them? I don't think so. The Israelites are going to inherit that land forever, and I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth then your descendants also could be numbered. And, so here's this childless man with no descendants being told he’s going to have all of these descendants.

And, so we’re seeing here that, that God has mentioned Abraham's descendants several times. The only problem was that Abraham and Sarah were old and childless, and notice what Abraham, Abram, said in Genesis 15, beginning in verse one of Genesis 15, “After these things the word of the Lord came to a Abram in a vision saying do not be afraid Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward. But, Abram said, ‘Lord God what will you give me seeing I go childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.’ Then Abram said, ‘Look, you have given me no offspring. Indeed, one born in my house is my heir.’” Verse four, “And, behold, the word of the Lord came to him saying this one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. Then, He brought him outside and said, ‘Look now toward heaven and count the stars if you're able to number them,’ and there are trillions of them, trillions of stars, ‘and He said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be and he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.’” 

And, then, Sarah and Abraham attempt to help God out, to help God fulfill His promise of a descendent through Sarah's handmaid through Sarah's Egyptian handmaid, Hagar, in Genesis 16. And, when Abraham was 99 years old he had his name changed from Abram to Abraham, in verse 17, verse five, of Genesis 17. Back in verse one, “When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, ‘I am Almighty God. Walk before me and be blameless, and I will make my covenant between me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.’ Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with Him, saying, ‘As for me, behold, my covenant is with you and you shall be a father of many nations.’”

Not just a couple of descendants, but the father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, which means in the New King James margin, exalted father, but it’s going to be changed to Abraham, which, according to the new King James margin reads, father of a multitude; father of a multitude. For I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you and kings shall come from you. And, I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be God to you and your descendants after you.

So, God gives him the covenant of circumcision and then in some few months Isaac is born, and when Sarah was past childbearing, when she was in menopause, and Abraham was an old man 100 years old, when he was born and then when, when he's a young lad, a teenager, I suppose, then God tells him to take him up where He would show him, and it took him some time to get there. And, Abraham goes up to sacrifice his son. And, as he was about to go through with the sacrifice the angel of the Lord said, do not lay your hand on him, Genesis 22, verse 12, on the lad, or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me. God the Father was, went further than Abraham did, and He allowed His only Son to suffer; not a quick death, but a horrible death by crucifixion. Showed us great love. And, Jesus showed us great love by doing that.

Another good example for us to consider back in the Old Testament is, is that of Joseph in Genesis the 42nd chapter, Genesis 42, verse 18. Joseph’s brothers have, have come down, and he has put them together in prison for three days. Then, in verse 18, “Joseph said to them the third day, ‘Do this and live, for I fear God.’” Joseph feared God. What are some of the ways that his life shows that, that he feared, feared God. Joseph had every human reason to be bitter and vengeful toward, toward his brothers. Joseph was sold as a slave by his brothers, and he was bought by Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard. Potiphar's wife took a liking to Joseph, and Joseph refused to commit fornication with her and it would've been adultery for her. And, because he was falsely accused of attempted rape, he’s thrown into prison. So, not only has he been sold as a slave and then when he did what was right he got thrown into prison, because the lie that was told about him.
And, then, God had pharaoh have a dream. And, it was remembered that Joseph had interpreted a dream of, for two of Pharaoh’s officials, and so Joseph was called and he interpreted the dream that there would be seven years of plenty, and, then, there would be seven years of famine. And, in one day Joseph went from being a prisoner, a slave in a dungeon, to being second-in-command over all Egypt, the most powerful nation on the earth at the time.

And, so when his brothers came, he had the power of the state behind him. He could have done them great harm up to probably taking their lives. And, yet, he didn’t. And, his brothers were afraid that after Jacob died that Joseph’s true feelings would come out, and he would do them harm. And, so they had gone to Jacob and talked to him.

And, if you’ll see how Joseph reacted in, in Genesis the 50th chapter, in verse 15, of Genesis 50, you read there that after Jacob died, the brothers said, “Perhaps Joseph will hate us and may actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him.” So, they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, ‘Thus shall you say to Joseph, I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.’ Now, please forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And, how did Joseph react? Joseph was always crying. (laughs) He was always crying. And, Joseph wept, Joseph had a lot of heart, a lot of heart, and Joseph wept when they spoke to him. And, so then his brothers went and fell down before his face and they said, Behold, we are your servants. And, how did Joseph respond? He said, in verse 19, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? But, as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day to save many people alive.”

And they all had been saved alive, through God working through Joseph. Therefore, now, therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little, and he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. So, Joseph was a great man. Joseph feared God. And, Joseph could have done his brothers in. He had the power of the Egyptian state to do it, and notice how in what a great way he reacted.

The children of Israel after the plagues, death of the Egyptian firstborn, and crossing the Red Sea, in Exodus 14, in Exodus the 14th chapter, in verse 31, of Exodus 14. “Thus, Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt, so the people feared the Lord,” yare, the Lord, “and believed the Lord and His servant Moses. The children of Israel stood in awe of the Lord.”

You consider all of the plagues that they had just seen, which I have written down here in the margin. The first three were on Egyptians and on the children of Israel. there were, water changed to blood, frogs, and the lice. Then, the last seven were not on Israel and just on the Egyptians. they were flies, livestock, disease, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and, finally, the death of the firstborn. The first two plagues, the changing the water to blood and, and producing the frogs, the magicians of Pharaoh could perform, but, then, the remaining eight they were not able to perform. So, the children of Israel celebrated the Passover and they placed the blood of the slain lamb on their doorposts and God passed over in spared all the firstborn of Israel and He killed all of the firstborn of Egypt. The children of Israel saw the Lord, Lord part the Red Sea and provide a dry path of escape from the Egyptians. They saw God close the waters of the Red Sea onto the pursuing Egyptian army, and all were drowned. So, the children of Israel had good reason to fear the Lord, to stand in awe of their miracle working God. But, it didn't last, unfortunately. The children of Israel, for, were faithful for a period of time, and then they began to commit idolatry and Sabbath breaking. And, eventually, they all went into captivity, as I mentioned, the northern 10 tribes by the Assyrians, and the… and Judah and Benjamin and all of those there by the Babylonians.

But, we just celebrated the Feast and the Eighth Day, and so they're, they’re all going to be brought back and brought to life as you read in Ezekiel 37. And, they’re all, God is going to take them all, out of the idolatrous, Sabbath breaking trash heap that they went into, and give them a heart of flesh, instead of a heart of stone.

Let me give you a summary of what actions are produced by fearing the Lord in the book of Deuteronomy. What do we do when we fear the Lord or fear God? We hear God's Word, and, thereby, we learn to fear God. We have a heart that fears God and keeps all of God's commandments that it might go well for us and our children. All the children of Israel had to do was say, yes, Lord. I will lord. I won't break the Sabbath, Lord. I won’t worship these idols. All they had to do was obey and they had it all handed to them on a silver platter. We fear God and keep all of His statutes and commandments that our days may be prolonged, that He might preserve us alive and for our good.

One of the reasons that God has us to keep the Feast is to learn to fear Him always; to learn to fear God always. And, that is in Deuteronomy the 14th chapter, verse 23, “And you shall eat before the Lord your God in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine, and your oil, of the firstlings of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always,” yare, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. That's one of the reasons we go up to the Feast. That's the reason we go up to the Feast. It's a holy convocation.

And in order for us to go, we have to keep our second tithe in order to do that. And, if you’re obeying that, great! If you aren't, you are violating the law. Personally, my wife and I would feel like we were stealing from God if we didn't save that Festival tithe and go up and keep the Feast. There’s a curse for disobedience, and we don't want to be under that curse, and there’s a blessing for obedience, if we stand in awe of God, if we fear God, then we will strive to be obedient.

In Deuteronomy the 31st chapter, when Israel gathered before the Lord in the place where you chose to place His name, all of the people, men, women and children, and strangers were to gather together to hear the law read to them that they might learn to fear God and carefully observe all the words of the law. In Deuteronomy the 31st chapter, verse 12, we read, begin to read that. Deuteronomy 31, verse 12, “Gather the people together…,” and this was, this was every seven years, in verse 10, at the end of every seven years at the appointed time in the year of release, that seventh year, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God, a place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

They didn't have all of these Bibles like we're blessed to have where each one of them had his own set of scriptures.

“Gather the people together,” verse 12, “men and women, and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, and that their children who have not known it may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you crossed the Jordan to possess.”

And, so they read the law that they might learn to fear God and carefully observe all the words of the law.

The fear of the Lord is the basis and foundation for many blessings from God as revealed in the Psalms and the Proverbs. Let’s look at a few of these.

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him. Psalm 25. Psalm 25, verse 14. “The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him and He will show them His covenant.” There’s a blessing there. God keeps His promises. He keeps His covenant. 

There’s great goodness laid up for those who fear Him. Psalm 31. Great goodness laid up for those who fear Him. Psalm 31, verse 19, “Oh, how great is your goodness which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have prepared for those who trust in you in the presence of the sons of man.” So, there's great goodness laid up for those who fear Him for those who trust in Him.

There is no want to those who fear Him. Palm 34, verse 9, “Oh, fear the Lord you His saints,” Psalm 34, verse nine, “there is no want to those who fear Him.” 

There’s a coming time when all the earth will fear God. Psalm 67, several pages over. Psalm 67, verse seven, “God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.” God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. There’s coming a time, when, we hear about it at the Feast, when all of the earth, all people alive are going to know God from the least to the greatest; all know God from the least to the greatest. There all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.

Psalm 103, God's mercy and God’s pity is great toward those that fear Him. Psalm 103, verse 11. Psalm 103, “For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.” Verse 13, “As a father pities His children so the Lord pities those who fear Him.” Verse 14, For He knows our frame. He remembers that we’re dust.” He knows our needs even before we ask, but He wants us to ask. Verses 17 and 18, “But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him.” Mercy’s going to go on forever and ever, from everlasting to everlasting, and His righteousness to children's children to such as keep His covenant and those who remember His commandments to do them, there’s some doing involved. So, God's mercy and God pity is great toward those who fear Him. God's mercy is from everlasting to everlasting to those who remember His covenant and keep His Commandments.

Psalm 111, verse 10, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Psalm 111, verse 10 of Psalm 111, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have all those who do His commandment. His praise endures forever.”

And, the Hebrew word here is, is, is, yir-ah, if I'm pronouncing it correctly, is Strong’s 3374, and it means, fear or reverence.

Psalm 115, verse 11, “You who fear the Lord trust in the Lord. He is their help and their shield.” For those who fear and trust in the Lord, the Lord is their help and shield.

Psalm one…

Now, in the book of Proverbs, there’s a whole bunch, also. And, the, the Hebrew word for these Scriptures in Proverbs, is, yir-ah, Y-I-R-A-H, which means fear or reverence according to Vine’s.

In Proverbs 1, verse seven, Proverbs one, verse seven, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, is the beginning of knowledge, is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom and, and instruction.” The fear of the Lord would be a good start for geology and evolution as I mentioned earlier. And geology and evolution promulgates creation without a creator, laws without a lawgiver.

Proverbs 2, verse five, “Then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.” If one searches for wisdom, then one will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 8, verse 13, Proverbs 8, verse 13, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Pride and arrogance and the evil way and the perverse mouth I hate.” The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Do you hate what you see on TV? Do you hate the crime that goes on among us, blood touching blood? Do you hate immorality? The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. You fear God by hating those kind of things. And, you pray, Father, please help me to bring all of my thoughts into captivity, because sin starts in the mind. We think about, and, eventually, we keep thinking about, and we commit a sin, we commit a wrong act. So, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Pride and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.

Proverbs 9, verse 10, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

Proverbs 10:27, “The fear of the Lord prolongs days, but the years of the wicked will be short.” So, the fear of the Lord leads to a longer life, because we obey the commandments that lead to a longer life. Honoring one's father and mother leads to a longer life. Our sins have detrimental effects for several generations.

Proverbs 14:27, “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life to avoid the snares of death.”

Proverbs 16, verse six, “In mercy and truth atonement is provided for iniquity, and by the fear of the Lord one departs from evil.” See, when we respect God, when we stand in awe of God, when, when, when we fear in the right way what He can do to us if we disobey, then we're careful not to take those wrong forks in the road and go the wrong way, and all of us have gone the wrong way for too many times.

Proverbs 22, verse 4, lastly, “By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life.” By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor and life.

God wants us to fear Him for our good, both physically and spiritually, to fear God is to stand in awe of God's greatness, His creativity, His law, His kingdom. God promises great blessings in this life and in His kingdom to come for those who fear Him. May God help us all to grow in our fear of God. You shall fear the Lord.